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Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children. -- Kimberly Quinn
I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved. -- Mike Quigley
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. -- Albert Claude
I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths. -- Mitt Romney
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. -- Greg Walden
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. -- Desmond Tutu
I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths. -- Marco Rubio
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing. -- Alfre Woodard
Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too. -- Martin Rees
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. -- Tom Hiddleston
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. -- Tony Blair
Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues. -- Meir Soloveichik
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. -- Suzanne Fields
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. -- Whittaker Chambers
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. -- William O. Douglas
Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Bottom line is, you're not going to win the war against terrorism without the help of Muslims... as well as Hindus and a lot of other groups. That's a no-brainer. Many attacks have been thwarted because of information coming from people of different faiths. -- Andre Carson
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. -- Bob Menendez
While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights. -- Michael Huffington
People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview. -- Mitt Romney
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. -- Jonathan Sacks
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. -- Jimmy Carter
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. -- Rick Wakeman
We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time. -- Trina
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that. -- Ed Miliband
Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. -- Josiah Royce
All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence. -- Timothy Radcliffe
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. -- Salman Rushdie
I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths. -- Manmohan Singh
Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill. -- Paul Weyrich
Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. -- Dan Brown
India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world -- Leo Tolstoy
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world. -- Ambrose Bierce
My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths. -- Rima Fakih
One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me. -- Sara Teasdale
I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men. -- Leverett Saltonstall
We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. -- Sam Harris
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. -- Ridley Scott
There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man. -- Leo Tolstoy
The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out. -- Lizette Woodworth Reese
Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives. -- Stephen Harper
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. -- Richard Dawkins
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths. -- Annie Besant
We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God. -- Bob Taft
Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. -- George W. Bush
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help... -- Marian Wright Edelman
God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" -- -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. -- Henry David Thoreau
Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government. -- David Burge
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all. -- Sivananda
[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that. -- Paul Auster
I love Earth Day, when once each year people of different backgrounds and faiths gather together to bury an environmentalist alive. -- John Alejandro King
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. -- George Carey
Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. -- Clarence Darrow
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible -- Mahatma Gandhi
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose. -- Viktor Yushchenko
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths -- Tony Benn
Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart. -- Timothy Radcliffe
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. -- Ambrose Bierce
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. -- Aga Khan IV
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together. -- Neil MacGregor
Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States. -- Paul Weyrich
Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths. -- Barack Obama
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal. -- A.C. Grayling
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. -- Emily Greene Balch
The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths. -- Walter F. Mondale
In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme. -- Criss Jami
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part. -- George Carey
Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows. -- Noah Feldman
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. -- Jerry Costello
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him. -- Bruce Feiler
I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic. -- Jim Gaffigan
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. -- William Robertson Smith
For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one -- Mahatma Gandhi
Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents. -- Michael Krondl
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in. -- Katha Pollitt
If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions. -- Louis Farrakhan
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. -- Carl Sagan
Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths. -- Kevin Sorbo
God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences. -- Jonathan Sacks
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures. -- Tony Blair
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism. -- Jon Meacham
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion. -- Taslima Nasrin
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Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must feel that believers of all faiths support them. -- Maurice Motamed
The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths. -- Corrado Ghinamo
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. -- Jimmy Carter
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right. -- Susan Jacoby
Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. "Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one? -- R. Scott Bakker
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim. -- David Bentley Hart
Somewhat of goodness, something true From sun and spirit shining through All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, Attests the presence everywhere Of love and providential care. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures. -- Kofi Annan
I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious. -- Stephen Karam
If you wish to discuss strong faith, let's begin with those shunned by other faiths as being the bad seed, and still wake up each morning with self-worth and purpose. That is strength in faith. -- Michelle Anderson Picarella
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability. -- Bertrand Russell
Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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